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"Week 2"
byoffer 15808 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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01-15-07, 11:44 AM (EST)
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1. "RE: Week 2" |
Hey WJThere is some discussion about the pink bathing suit from last night's show over in OT... http://community.realitytvworld.com/boards/DCForumID6/27108.shtml As for who should have been fired, I couldn't disagree with the choice. I may not have seen the whole show though. Did they get a chance to speak to the buyers (or anyone from the company) about what the buyers were looking for? Carey seemed to think he knew the designer's style, and eas just emulating that. If he got burned by matching the designer's normal style, but a style the designer was not using on this task, then I think he got burned. But if the challenge was just to design a line of swim suits that America would buy, then he was way off mark and should have been canned. I never considered it as a black/white thing. I was surprised Donald was so quick to point out "you are gay" in the boardroom. I don't think this had anything to do with the firing, but I would not have wanted to bring this up if firing might be involved. 
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DarwinianAtheist 9 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "American Cancer Society Spokesperson"
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01-15-07, 01:36 PM (EST)
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I just don't get how the group could have ok'd that particular suit- I just don't get it! I think that Ivanka ( sp? ) really hit the nail on the head when she said that the suit was too narrowly targeted to certain consumers. That suit is something out of a gay pride parade!! Not that is wasn't nice, not that it wouldn't sell to those consumers, but that wasn't the group being marketed for. I am still not sure if it was more Carey's or the PM's fault. I realize that Carey was very aggressive, but there is NO way as a PM that I would have agreed to that suit. No way. I like Carey- he is energetic and I am sorry to see him go.
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mistyrose52 795 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Fitness Correspondent"
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01-15-07, 01:57 PM (EST)
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The suits were to be critiqued, as well as bought, by the consumer. Simple as that-not by the designer(s).Carrey was way out of line thoughout this whole task. And the thing that is really ticking me off, and that I just do NOT get is this: Just because they are in California, why do the majority of them think they have to all of a sudden swing all their talents to the gay side? This has been their theme since day one. Something that I've noticed on both episodes. So what that they are in So. California-there are no more gays there than in NY! I don't get it. But that aside, these tasks are just getting so out of focus, ridiculous, and the 'prizes' are sickening. So what-the GIRLS got to spend the evening at the Playboy Mansion. WOW-WHOPPEE!! Donald Trump is just showing the world what a giant, sexist creep he really is, and feeding fuel to Rosie, IMHO. Not to mention a few comments he made at the bathing suit expo. I'm just getting really sick and tired of this show-why would anyone who is already a successful business person, with a huge salary, subject themselves to the crap that is being thrown at them for this?? Again, I say-I dunno.....
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cainiacs 7 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "American Cancer Society Spokesperson"
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01-15-07, 02:56 PM (EST)
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did I actually hear trump ask the gay man if he ram rodded his ideas down the throats of his teammates.....
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amea_gari 585 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Reality Show Commentator"
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01-17-07, 04:30 PM (EST)
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14. "RE: Week 2" |
I guess I am going to have to be the one person who disagrees with the firing. Carey didn't force his ideas on anyone. The project manager herself said that the team was behind his ideas, with maybe one or two dissenters (The guy at the beginning, in the van, and Michelle). No one else, NO ONE else was showing making alternate designs. Carey was the only one who stepped forward to do that, the team accepted his ideas... Yes, the pink bathing suit was a blunder. But it wasn't solely Carey's blunder. As the PM said, pink is the new black, we all thought it was the right colour.As to the 'gay thing', it's true that Carey never made any secret of his sexuality, but according to the edit, Trump was the FIRST to bring it up in the boardroom, by saying "Carey, you're a gay man right?" Wow. Extremely unprofessional. Whether a man is gay or not is not a predictor of his taste. Heck, from the German people I know, that suit would have been the rage in Europe, for straight men. Trump outed the guy in a professional (ha ha) setting during a business meeting. If this were the REAL world, I'd say Carey should sue Trump's toupe off. But it's not. It's a special magical hell in which money means you're right.
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iltarion 1791 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Herbal Healing Drugs Endorser"
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01-18-07, 02:09 AM (EST)
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15. "RE: Week 2" |
Michelle should not have been in there. She was a victim of the clique-system which is apparently arising on that team. Tim and Aaron talk like they are in highschool for godsakes. Michelle was the most vocal opponent of Carey's ideas; so Carey and Nicole tried to shift some responsibility on her by asking her about the price point. Michelle didn't vascilate at all, despite what Carey said; she didn't agree with the suits and therefore refused to price them. How is that being indecisive? Carey deserved to be fired, not only for the one horrendous suit, but also for the other two, which ALSO failed to sell much. Here is a tribe that is mostly men, and they couldn't come up with decent male swimsuits? Where was Aaron or Tim or James to say those suits sucked? You have one suit that no straight male outside the French Mediterranean would wear, one that looked like boxers, and one that covered most the leg but clinged in the groin area? ALL 3 were horrible, not just that one. All the men in the tribe deserve some blame. Nicole certainly deserved blame and should have taken more heat. Michelle deserved the most credit for being one of the only disident voices to Carey's horrendous fashion ideas. I think it is obvious that Michelle is falling victim to the fact that she is just older than the other members of her team. She has been out of school too long for Tim, Aaron or Nicole to relate to her.
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